Feminist Thought in Aotearoa/New Zealand Differences and Connections

by Du Plessis, Rosemary; Alice, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9780195583564
• ISBN10: 0195583566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of essays highlights the telling diversity of feminist political analysis as practiced today in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The book has been designed to identify those issues that feminists in this and other contexts are addressing in their research, teaching, writing, and their relationships with other feminists. These papers respond to queries about how and why politics, identity, activism, and community are being reconsidered in the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Feminisms, Connections, and Differences
Feminism, Colonialism, and the Politics of Difference
A Crack in the Imperial Text: Constructions of 'white women' at the intersections of feminisms and colonialisms	p. 4
The Absent Presence: The silenced voice of the 'other' woman in New Zealand fiction	p. 12
(In)visible Bodies? Immigrant bodies and constructions of nationhood in Aotearoa/New Zealand	p. 21
Maori Women and the Politics of Theorising Difference	p. 29
Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Politics of Location	p. 37
Gender, Racism, and the Politics of Chinese Immigration	p. 43
Fa'aSamoa in the 1990s: Young Samoan women speak	p. 51
'I Live a Fragmented Life': Cultural identity as perceived by New Zealand Jewish women	p. 57
Political Scholarship/Politicised Teaching
At the Gates of the Knowledge Factory: Voice, authenticity, and the limits of representation	p. 68
Feminist Pedagogy: A conversation	p. 76
Reading 'Here' From 'There': Meditations on the study of post-colonial literatures	p. 82
Taking the Academy Down Among the Women	p. 88
In Search of a Language and a Shareable Imaginative World: E Kore Taku Moe e Riro i a Koe	p. 95
Shifting Certainties, Complex Practices: Reflections on feminist research	p. 104
Researching Women's Encounters with Doctors: Discourse analysis and method	p. 111
Numbers and Talk: Doing feminist research	p. 120
Positioning, Subjectivity, and Stories: Feminist poststructuralist research narratives	p. 127
Bodies, Sexualities, and Identities
Bodies, Sexualities, and Identities: A conversation	p. 138
Safe Sex, the Coital Imperative, and Women's Sexual Freedom	p. 147
Embodying Places and Emplacing Bodies: Pregnant women and women body builders	p. 156
Re/presenting Difference: Women and intellectual disability	p. 164
Living Outside the Boundary	p. 172
Clio Gets the Monthlies: Menstruation, politics, and historical practice	p. 178
'If I Didn't Get Commissions, I'd Do It Anyway': Feminist film and film/media criticism 1973-96	p. 187
Politics and Policy
Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Maori Women, and the State	p. 198
Woman and Social/Economic Policy: New feminist agendas for changing times?	p. 208
Rethinking Feminist Economics	p. 216
Paid Work, Policy, and the Concept of Equality	p. 223
Making the Difference: Equal employment opportunities (EEO) in public service organisations	p. 229
Women, Health, and Politics: Divisions and connections	p. 238
Feminism, Partnership, and Midwifery	p. 245
Notes	p. 255
References	p. 267
Index	p. 299
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